Threat and Vulnerability Analysis of Cloud Platform: A User Perspective

Cloud technology is a shared pool of configurable computer system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort over the internet. It has enormous advantages but also has many security risks. Cloud users require understanding emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and plan possible countermeasures before transferring their computing, storage, and application to remote locations. Due to its rising threats, identification of the vulnerabilities and most appropriate solution directives to strengthen security in the cloud environment becomes paramount for all operations in it. In our study, we have scrutinized the threats along with vulnerable area and classified them based on three domains from the perspective of users. To mitigate the threats, possible existing countermeasures are listed against each threat in this paper.